VoodooJuJu

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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
Me, because I said so.
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
>if you cut corners, you may be rich, but then I'll think you're a bad boy! Uh oh, a moral judgement from a peasant? Say it aint so. Anything but that. I'm literally shaking right now. Anyway, here are some actual incentiv
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
Yet. Just like this chemical. Just like DDT. Just like BPA. Just like PFCs. Not nearly enough testing is ever done on these things. Everyone is in such a rush to get these things into our environment and our bodies, no regard for higher ord
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
Right, this article doesn't make a case tracing Puritan and Borderer settlement to modern day California, but the book Albion's Seed does, and it makes a very convincing case. The book examines a variety of folkways, naming conven
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
In order to truly understand this article, it helps to have read Albion's Seed. It's true that Spanish influence isn't taken into account enough in this article, but the article is still pretty sound in the importance it puts
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
Oh you just done a heckin double badspeak. Not only are you not trusting my science, but you're slandering my big pharma. Big mistake. Thats a downvote.
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
Both are true. A lot of those posts you think are from internet trolls are actually real concerns, mostly from poor people, whose neighborhoods the immigrants were sent to, and it's they who are feeling the costs of that. But who cares
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
Unfortunately, the neoliberal order would completely collapse without illegal work, though they're starting to realize that if they import destitute people legally and lower the standard of living, they can still reap most of the cost
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
It's also not a one or the other kind of thing. The ideal auth system makes use of both, with the passkey or hardware token as the MFA component and a strong passphrase as the traditional password component. In this way, you are protec
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
>As we know only too well, reading books is considered the fundamental ingredient for moving from mental inferiority to inspiring intelligence. Lost me right at the first sentence. It's inferior to believe that books are a fundament
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
Because evolution isn't a nerd optimizing a design. Design implies intent. Evolution is more random and serendipitous than a nerd with any sort of intent. It's not engineering. There's no specs & recs or post mortems or b
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
For the same reason people support fluoridation of drinking water: they "trust the science" without even looking at it.
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
>"do you want chemicals in your water" I know you're deriding this as an invalid, small-brain appeal, but this is actually sound. It's like that meme with the bell curve of the layperson, the midwit, and the genius. T
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
Have children, open a restaurant or brewery or winery or pub, make art sculptures, landscape, make video games, play video games, play tabletop wargames.
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
Cope. You get out of books what you put into them. If you can't remember what you've read, it's because you didn't work to remember it (and that's okay). This quote is just cope for people to passively consume and f
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
I find this dockworker strike interesting because it's forcing people to re-evaluate their principles and beliefs about workers' rights and unions. >yass! go labor unions! strike! power to the workers! >NO, NOT LIKE THAT! So
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
The best book I've partially read is the New Testament. The best book I've actually read is Taleb's Antifragile.
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
Good riddance to this kind of library. His relationship with his private library is the same as most people's: an outlet for comfortable consumerism, materialism, and nostalgia. What he needed was an antilibrary: https://en.
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
Modesty is a virtue shared by many cultures throughout the world. It is not exclusive to the US or Puritans. And the US is not a cultural monolith. Millions of people in the US do not hold modesty as a virtue.
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
And are these Trumpians in the room with us right now?
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
>In the past, automation meant that workers could move into non-automated jobs, if they were skilled enough This was never the case in the past. The displaced workers of yesteryear were never at all considered, and were in fact dismissed
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
>Ultimately, having and keeping stuff just weighs you down. This, so much this! We should own nothing. Then we'll be happy!
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
I'm so glad I didn't hang around in video game forums & news sites and got to experience Fable in its pristine form. It's a beautiful game with a great environmental quality to it, much like classic World of Warcraft and
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
>a NIMBY is anti-progress And what is "progress"? We both have ideas about what progress is. Are mine the same as yours?
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
A corporation getting its way, irrespective of the democratic will of the people, or rather, those "insane NIMBYs". Corporatocracy truly is a beautiful thing.
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
No, but I'd wager that many would pay for the illusion of a benefit, especially while GPTs are still trending. A lot of startups collect tons of little microservices like this. They're typically willing to pay up to a few hundred
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
I don't know why that's funny, since that is the very essence of the ideal of democracy: the distillation or averaging of the sentiment of the masses yields truth. Some contributions are outliers in one way or another, and it&#x27
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
Pristine wilderness is not a myth, it's an ideal. It's an ideal appreciated by Europeans, but especially by Americans. We don't like people spreading to every single uninhabited nook & cranny and consuming every possible
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
Tough to read with the sticky header that takes up 1/4 of my screen. I thought we stopped doing that in like 2009, what happened?
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by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
>Like can browsers notify you about cookies instead in a non-intrusive way They absolutely can, and they absolutely can be our user agents for maintaining cookie whitelists, blacklists, with a consistent UI for being notified a site us

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